Colorado Billboard Combines Racism, Homophobia and Xenophobia
People driving through Grand Junction, Colorado for the next month will have to look at a racist, xenophobic and homophobic billboard that depicts President Obama as a turban-and-bomb-wearing terrorist, an illegal immigrant wearing a Mexican sombrero, a member of the Mob and a homosexual. The four figures of Obama are shown playing a card game, and lettering on the board reads, "Vote DemocRAT - Join the game." Paul Snover, the artist who helped design the board and who painted it on behalf of a local citizen who wants to remain anonymous, said, "With the elections coming up it works to get people to think, put a little humor into it..." But people don't seem to be laughing. Mesa County Democratic Party Chairwoman Martelle Daniels said of the billboard, "It's racist, it's homophobic, it's terrible..."
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Obama "DemocRAT" Billboard
Why wait two more years for the white house?
Perhaps the artist is the
Brazen - we need more
The only thing I don't like is the billboard being only seen by Americans around Grand Junction, CO. Maybe if we got some media PR...
Its being picked up by all
Its being picked up by all major media so we don't have to worry about only Grand Junction seeing it.